Three of my poems appear in a lovely new book, Puna Wai Korero: An Anthology of Maori Poetry in English. It’s published by Auckland University Press and edited by Reina Whaitiri and Robert Sullivan.
From next March I’ll be convening the Masters in Creative Writing at the University of Auckland. There’s information on the programme here, and details of how to apply here. The deadline is October 1st.
Please contact me via this web site if you have any questions about the shape of the programme, your application, or anything else …
Here’s a feature by a writer friend, Sarah Rayner, on copywriters who make – or want to make – the transition to writing novels. Sarah includes some comments from me in this piece.
I’m posting updates about my residency in Denmark at my blog, www.trendybutcasual.typepad.com. It’s proving a fantastic place to write so far – with the YA novel set in Rome just completed.
There’s a very nice story here, initiated by the University of Auckland (where I’ll be teaching creative writing from March 2015) about my upcoming residencies at the Brecht House in Denmark and Bellagio in Italy. Really looking forward to both.
I’m going to be teaching at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival later this month, which means a stretch of hot weather, I hope. It’s ten years since I lived in Iowa City, and I’m always really happy to go back. My novel class there is full, but I think there are still spaces available on my weekend course. I’m also giving a public lecture, in their Eleventh Hour speaking series. It’s an American version of my “Imperial World: the Politics of International Book Prizes” talk. The talk takes place at the University of Iowa, Biology Building East, Room 101, at 11 AM on Thursday, June 19th.
Just a reminder that I’m appearing in five events this weekend (May 30-June 1) at the Australia & New Zealand Festival of Literature. Please come along if you’re in London. Check out the link above for details of events and venues.
One of the events is the launch of the special NZ issue of Five Dials.You can subscribe to Five Dials for free by clicking this link.
Upcoming festival appearances include various events at the Auckland Writers & Readers Festival in May. My solo event is a free lecture called “Imperial World: The Politics of Book Prizes at the University of Auckland on Thursday, May 15th.
I’m also involved in the first-ever Australia/New Zealand Festival of Literature in London at the end of May. As soon as the programme is announced, I’ll list the events here.
I’m off to speak at a Gothic Fiction symposium in Lancaster, taking place tomorrow, September 27th, at the university there. Other featured authors include Chris Priestley, Celia Rees, Marcus Sedgwick and Sarah Singleton.